Whose digital Middle Ages? Accessibility in digital medieval manuscript culture

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Emily C. Francomano ◽  
Heather Bamford
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Manuscript Culture ◽  
Medieval Manuscript

Anna Russakoff, Imagining the Miraculous: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in French Illuminated Manuscripts, ca. 1250-ca. 1450. Studies and Texts, 215; Text Image Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination, 7. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2019, xviii, 194 pp., ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 541-544
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Bayo
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Old French ◽  
Illuminated Manuscripts ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Medieval Manuscript ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Image Context ◽  
Panel Paintings

This monograph deals with illuminated manuscripts created in French-speaking regions from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth century, i.e., from the earliest narratives of Marian miracles written in <?page nr="542"?>Old French to the codices produced at the Burgundian court at the waning of the Middle Ages. Its focus, however, is very specific: it is a systematic analysis of the miniatures depicting both material representations of the Virgin (mainly sculptures, but also icons, panel paintings, altarpieces or reliquaries) and the miracles performed by them, usually as Mary’s reaction to a prayer (or an insult) to one of Her images.

From the Scholarly Edition to Visualization: Re-using Encoded Data for Historical Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Rehbein
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Data Representation ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Medieval Manuscript ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Research Questions

This paper reports from the perspective of a historian who is investigating an early medieval manuscript, aiming at opening it up for further research and exploring its location in space, time, and intellectual context. The manuscript in question and the texts it carries show a complex, interwoven network of intra- and intertextual relations and the paper argues that only a combination, provided by computational means as the methodological key, of two usually distinct research approaches, namely close reading and distant reading, can deliver answers to the research questions imposed. The paper introduces some central methods of an interdisciplinary field, commonly known as digital humanities, in the realm of data representation (data modeling and text encoding) as well as core applications in the realm of data presentation and analysis (digital editing and visualization). As these supportive methods are neither the starting-point for historical research nor an end-in-itself, they are mirrored against scholarly practices of both, of the early Middle Ages and of modern scholarship.

Old Sources, New Technology: Princeton University’s Geniza Computer Project

1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mark R. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Medieval Manuscript ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Cairo Geniza ◽  
Marriage Contracts

Since the inception of the “computer age,” much talk has been heard about applying this relatively new technology for manipulating information to the medieval manuscript fragments from the Cairo Geniza. The uses of the Geniza, particularly its documentary sources, for Middle Eastern history will be well known to many readers of this Bulletin. The thousands of letters, court records, marriage contracts, lists, and other documentary treasures, preserved for centuries in a large discard chamber in what is today the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, and written in Hebrew or Judæo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew letters), with a small number in Arabic language and script, constitute an unmediated source for the reconstruction of what the late Professor S. D. Goitein called the “Mediterranean Society” of Jews, Muslims, and Christians of the high Middle Ages.

Dares Survives

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-304
Author(s):  
Frederic Clark
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Manuscript Culture ◽  
Medieval Manuscript ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Joseph Of Exeter

Chapter 6 moves both forward in time and outward in scope. It traces Dares’ afterlife well into the seventeenth century, and in doing so it moves beyond treatments of the text in isolation. Instead, it examines the afterlives of Dares’ “fellow travelers”—i.e., texts that circulated with him either in manuscripts, printed editions, or even the minds of critics—and reconstructs how together they wove webs of error and confusion that kept Dares alive for longer than we might think possible. These textual companions included such diverse sources as Joseph of Exeter, Dictys, (pseudo)-Pindar, and even Homer himself. As this chapter suggests, the legacy of medieval manuscript culture—and its many unintended consequences—was felt long into the early modern period. The second half of the chapter discusses the role that Dares, along with Dictys, played in debates over the historicity of the distant Trojan past, in an age marked by newfound historical skepticism.

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